I prepared this recently for a local organization. May as well share and enjoy:
Bob Brown
Position
Principal, Director and Owner of Transentia Pty. Ltd.
Company
Transentia Pty. Ltd.
http://www.transentia.com.au
Brief background of yourself / company
Bob Brown has 25 years experience as a software developer and also possesses more than 10 years experience in tertiary-level research and lecturing in Europe, Asia and Australia. Bob has been a frequent presenter at conferences and public events throughout the world.
Transentia has been in existence since late 1999 and operates under the byline “training, development, consulting at the leading-edge of technology.”
Transentia’s direct client list includes:
- Energex/SPARQ
- Oracle
- Support Technologies
- Queensland Treasury Corporation
- DHL
- BEA
- SMS Consulting
- Queensland University of Technology
- Tasmania Police Department
- Software Engineering Australia
- CoalTech Pty. Ltd.
- The Northern Territory’s Department of Education
- University of Macau Centre for Continuing Education and Special Programmes
Transentia has also subcontracted on behalf of many other companies to many other large Australian organisations.
Specialities / Special interests
Bob Brown is a specialist in Enterprise-level Java Development, covering:
- JEE (with BEA/Oracle Weblogic, and JBoss)
- The Spring Framework and associated modules and sub-projects
- The GR8 technologies (Groovy/Grails/Griffon)
- Systems integration with vendor-level products such as BEA Weblogic Itegration, BEA Liquid Data, Spring Integration, Apache Camel; also with ‘raw’ technologies such as SOAP/REST WebServices, CORBA, DCE and Java RMI
- The JBoss Seam Framework
- Rich Desktop/Internet Applications
- Applications of XML (such as Scalable Vector Graphics [SVG])
Bob also has strong C development experience in embedded/SCADA environments.
Bob has extensive Unix/Linux experience.
Bob has varied experience as technical project team lead and is a Certified Scrum Master (http://www.scrumalli … iles/45966-bob-brown).
In 1998, Bob was the recipient of an IBM ‘residency’ and was sponsored to work at IBM’s Austin, Texas, research centre on Java design, programming and optimisation for the Network Computer. This work has been published as a Prentice-Hall book entitled “JAVA Thin-Client Programming for a Network Computing Environment.” In April 2000, he was asked to return to IBM for a second residency entitled “Connecting e-business to the enterprise.” This residency concentrated on using IBM’s Pattern Development Kit to integrate IBM’s WebSphere Application Server, VisualAge for Java, CICS, IMS and MQSeries into an Internet-based e-business enterprise.
Bob holds an M.Sc. from the University of Essex, England and a B.Sc. from The Hatfield Polytechnic, England.
